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0 pointsrfrank10y ago0 comments

I personally can't stand this sort of thing because it conflates something personal/intimate with a press release, and that's just kinda gross to me.

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You're saying that her daughter won't get the warm fuzzies in 20 years time over a PR release veiled as a "future note to our daughter"? Me neither.

Oh for sure, there's a level of intimacy involved that, in a way, acts as a buffer against criticism.

To criticise the lovely sentiment would be like pointing out a child making a half-dozen spelling errors in their letter to Santa Claus.

Contrast this with Ta-Nahesi Coates' public, yet deeply personal, Letter to My Son.

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